​Day three of 2017, and I’ve already gotten into it with a Trump supporter. I won’t flesh out the details of the argument or which one of us was obviously right (hint: I think it was me). I will just say that when the smoke cleared and I walked away from Facebook, I felt like crap. This is common in most people, actually. Too often, when confronted with a position or situation that is almost unfathomable to us, we try to make sense of it by forcing our wills upon others.

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The doctors have a name for it: confabulation. The filling in gaps in memory by unconstrained fabrication.

In the latter half of the 19th Century, there was this Russian psychiatrist named Sergei Sergeyevich Korsakov observed this behavior in chronic alcoholics. Most often, these patients resorted to imagination to compensate for irregular memory loss and impaired ability to acquire new information.